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The paper investigates the effect of response time and keystroke loss ratio on text entry on an Interactive Digital Television system using a remote control. Both parameters were identified based on previous empirical evidence. They are usually caused by poor hardware, software, or the quality of buttons. We conducted an experiment with 15 participants using a Multi-tap text entry method to perform text-copy tasks under different conditions. Entry rate, error rate, and subjective rating were measured in the experiment. The limit values, which have only minimal effect on user performance, are 200 ms response time and 2% keystroke loss ratio. However, these values still cause a significant decrease in subjective user comfort. Based on this observation we determined the maximum response time to 100 ms and the keystroke loss ratio to 1%.
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Poláček, O., Pavlík, T., Sporka, A.J. (2013). Efficiency of Multi-tap Text Entry Method on Interactive Television. In: Habernal, I., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40585-3_28
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